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" Through days of sorrow and of mirth, Through days of death and days of birth, Through every swift vicissitude Of changeful time, unchanged it has stood, And as if, like God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — "Forever — never... "
The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 90
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 363 pages
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 69

1851 - 786 pages
...along the floor, And seems to say at each chamber door— ' For ever — never ! Never — for ever ! ' In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality...chimney roared, The stranger feasted at his board ; Bnt, like the skeletons at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased — • ' For ever —...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 32

1850 - 464 pages
...saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, " Forever — never! Never — forever !" In that mausion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality ; His great fires...The stranger feasted at his board : But, like the skeletons at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased, " Forever — never ! Never — forever...
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The Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 9

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1846 - 558 pages
...each chamber door, "Forever — never ! Never — forever !" In that mansion used to be Free hearted Hospitality, His great fires up the chimney roared,...; But like the skeleton at the feast, That warning time-pece never ceased, — "Forever— never ! Never — forever !" , There groups of merry children...
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The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1846 - 178 pages
...as if, like God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " In that mansion used to be Free-hearted...— never ! Never — forever ! " There groups of tnerry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed ; O precious hours ! O golden prime,...
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Dwight's American Magazine, Volume 2

Theodore Dwight - 1846 - 764 pages
...Free-hearted hospitality ; His great tires up ihe chimney roared ; The stranger feasted at his board ; Bui, like the skeleton at the feast, That warning time-piece...groups of merry children played, There youths and maidensdreaming strayed, 0 precious hours! 0 golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as...
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The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 170 pages
...as if, like God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " Forever — never! Never — forever !" In that mansion used to be Free-hearted...hours ! O golden prime, And affluence of love and time ! Even as a miser counts his gold, Those hours the ancient timepiece told,— " Forever — never!...
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Poems on slavery, early poems, additional poems, and ballads

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1848 - 128 pages
...things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality...at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever !" There groups of merry children played, There youths...
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Poems, Volume 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 476 pages
...as if, like God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever ! " In that mansion used to be Free-hearted...ceased, — " Forever — never ! Never — forever I " There groups of merry children played, There youths and maidens dreaming strayed ; 0 precious hours...
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Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 462 pages
...all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe, — " For ever — never! Never — for ever!" In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality...at the feast, That warning timepiece never ceased, — " For ever — never ! Never — for ever!' There groups of merry children played, There youths...
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Recollections of a Literary Life: Or, Books, Places and People

Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...God, it all things saw, It calmly repeats those words of awe: . " Forever—never! Never—forever!" In that mansion used to be Free-hearted Hospitality;...at the feast, That warning time-piece never ceased: " Forever—never! Never—forever!" There groups of merry children played; There youths and maidens,...
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